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“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”

[Headline, photos, and caption published by: ABC Pilbara. 16 October 2020.]

The traditional owners of Juukan Gorge have spoken of the “absolute hell” and “desperation” they went through in trying to stop their 46,000-year-old sacred site being destroyed by Rio Tinto in May [2020] and their ongoing “devastation” that the blast went ahead. The Puutu Kunti Kuurama and Pinikura peoples said Rio gave them misleading information while they were trying to negotiate a halt to the blast, and in some cases gave them no information at all about what they were doing onsite. […] “Myself, my family, our elders and our ancestors are in mourning at the desecration of our sacred site,” PKKP traditional owner [BH] told a federal parliamentary inquiry into the incident.“The disaster has now left a gaping hole in our ability to pass on our heritage to our children and grandchildren.” […] Rio Tinto kept loading explosives around the gorge, even after they had promised to delay the blast, and even as they were engaging in negotiations with the PKKP’s heritage team. […] [PKKP] also has concerns about the safety of the highly significant cultural materials salvaged from the caves, including a 4,000-year-old belt of plaited human hair […]. “The objects are being held in a sea container that goes from 7C to 60C on a daily basis. We are really worried about their condition,” Builth said. “We don’t have access [to them] because all of these items are stored on Rio Tinto property.” […] “We will recover what we can from the rubble of Juukan Gorge,” [BH] said. “We will do what we can to keep that anchor to our ancestors and as reminder of how fragile heritage is, at the hands of those who do not care about it as we do.” It is the first time the PKKP have spoken publicly. Because of a “gag clause” in their agreement with Rio Tinto, they had to seek permission from the company to speak to the inquiry without repercussion.

[Headline and text published by: Lorena Allam. “‘Devastated’ Indigenous owners say Rio Tinto misled them …” The Guardian. 12 October 2020.]

The mining giant Rio Tinto still holds 1,780 approvals to destroy Aboriginal sacred sites in the Pilbara, senior executives have told a parliamentary inquiry into the company’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred site at Juukan Gorge in May [2020].

The 1,780 approvals remain valid while Western Australia’s outdated Aboriginal heritage laws are being reviewed, which means the company can legally destroy the sites. […]

Rio’s global chief, [JJ], its iron ore boss, [CS], and its corporate affairs boss, [SN], gave evidence to the Australian inquiry for a second time on Friday under very different circumstances from their first appearance in August.

All three are stepping down over the company’s handling of the destruction of a 46,000-year-old rock shelter at Juukan Gorge, deemed to be of the highest archaeological significance in Australia – an example of industry conduct the WA Labor senator Pat Dodson labelled “incremental genocide”.

[JJ] said none of them had been aware of the site’s “extreme archaeological and cultural significance” until after it was destroyed, although “they should have been”. But he said others in the company had known since 2005. […] [CS] said Rio hadn’t told the Puutu Kunti Kuurama and Pinikura peoples about its blast plans because “we believed we had consent”.

The WA Greens senator Rachel Siewert said she found it “mind-boggling” that the company could “just write off 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage like that, just write it off. Just unbelievable.” Niven, responsible for Indigenous community relations since 2017, admitted that she had never once visited the site and had visited “maybe three or four” of Rio’s other Pilbara sites. She also revealed that the only meeting she had sought or held with the PKKP was after they had made a submission to the inquiry in late September.

[Headline and text published by: Lorena Allam. “Rio Tinto still has 1,780 approvals …” The Guardian. 16 October 2020.]

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Gareth is going to bake rainbow cupcakes tomorrow! Stay tuned!

Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

me when i see a cat: CAT! cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

Entrapdak is still subtext, they didn't confirm it

Y’all can’t be seeing that entire arc and say they ain’t canonically in love. Season 3 and 4 already have huge evidence for it but like we can dive here too.

How about the first time we see Entrapta having a chance to see a dormant clone she immediately goes to it to check if it’s Hordak? She’s in a genelab of some kind, the tech here is amazing, and she’s immediately ignored it to check on this clone.

We learn she recovered the LUVD Crystal and has had it on her person this whole time just in case she finds Hordak and he needs it. She’s carrying it with her because she cares about him, she worries about him, she wants to help him.

She just so desperately wants it to be him, to see him again and for him to see her.

Of course this is Wrong Hordak, which leads to another very important reveal.

Entrapta has been keeping a list. We can infer she’s been watching the clones to try and determine which one is Hordak. This is an active tally in her mind, something she’s been doing. Entrapta isn’t really one to pine, she’s one to work, and this is her working in regards to Hordak.

On Hordak’s side?

Entrapta loses the crystal on Prime’s Ship, and Hordak finds it. Hordak has been reset but he sees it and immediately remembers her, at least her name. His affections for her are strong enough he instantly begins to break control.

Other times we see a solid break of control like this are on chipped people, notably Catra and Spinnerella who break Prime’s grip through their love. This continues too. Hordak continues to have scenes holding and pondering the crystal, and when Prime has him help retrieve memories from an old body we get the scene of Hordak retrieving his own memories. 

Notably he takes a risk, while Prime is distracted he lets himself dive into his own mind.

And very notably gets this flashback at the end of the sequence.

Let’s zoom forward to Failsafe, back on Etheria. To their ENCOUNTER. Hordak finds her, asks her what she is doing here. Then sees her and...

He recognizes her.

Entrapta does THIS, and then...

This is a CLASSIC trope right here. Character who isn’t supposed to feel things falls in love and drops that “What have you done to me?”

Entrapta takes his hand. A gentle touch between them as they found each other again.

As Swift Wind pulls her away the last thing she does is remind him his Imperfections are Beautiful, he’s Beautiful. She knows he’s out there, he recognizes her. She knows he’ll come back to her. There’s faith there, and Entrapta normally isn’t really one for that.

And that night.

While everyone else is asleep she pulls up an image of him, just to look at it.

And then, and THEN. The real OOMF moment to it all. Entrapta is captured, Hordak is her primary guard here.

Instantly he is upset to see her upset, and when ordered to kill her later.

He breaks free. He reclaims himself to protect her, to save her. Just as she’s saved him.

He looks back at her, gentle and kind, and dare I say loving?

Entrapta confirms she simply believed in him, in his ability to overcome.

Then Prime does his space demon possession thing, and She-Ra purifies Hordak. 

Like do I even need commentary for this?

This is a love arc. It’s really really blatant. They don’t kiss, they don’t say the words love but also its Entrapta and Hordak. That’s not really how they are? That’s part of the beauty of it too. They clearly, very clearly, love each other and it’s in their own way. 

tl;dr did you watch the show?